"The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth"
"Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels."
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Source: Jim Harrison (2013). “Letters to Yesenin”, p.41, Copper Canyon Press
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